Demon From the Dark
(Immortals After Dark #10)
by Kresley Cole
5 HEARTS
From Goodreads
From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this scorching tale of a demon outcast poisoned with vampire blood and the vulnerable young witch he vows to protect—even from himself.
A dangerous demon she can't resist...
Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he's pushed to the brink by the green-eyed beauty under his guard.
A maddening witch he aches to claim...
Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving.
Trapped together in a savage prison...
In order for Malkom and Carrow to survive, he must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him. When Malkom becomes the nightmare his own people feared, will he lose the woman he craves body and soul?
This is the 10th installment in Cole's Immortals After Dark series. It is about Carrow Graie, a.k.a. Carrow the Incarcerated, a mercenary of the Wiccae, and Malkom Slaine, leader of the Trothan rebellion.
This book set a new "stage" in the IAD world as well giving us a good look at a new species within the Lore world. One that was though a myth. The Scabara, or otherwise known as a vemon, were demons poisoned by vampire blood and thought of as abominations by most of the Lore. We as readers knew that they were not a myth because we saw one in A Hunger Like No Other but other than that, Malkom is the first one that we've met.
The stage that the first 9 books in the IAD series was built on stemmed from the platform that was built in the first 2 books. We knew that the Accession was near. We knew about a number of Valkyrie, Vampires, Demons and Lykae. However, the list of characters these previous 9 books had introduced us to had grown short. I also think that Kresley was afraid that she was getting too repetitive so she thought up a new angle and delivered the Order to us in the epilogue of PoaDP. Whereas books 2 - 9 all happened within the same year we needed to move on so now we find that this mysterious Order is after the different species and factions of the Lore. From that epilogue came 3 new stories. DftD is the first of the 3 that Kresley has gifted us.
OK, so as I said earlier we now have this Order coming after our favorite Loreans. The Order has been around for ages and their mission is to keep the Lore world a secret from the mortal world. It's a multinational mortal operation created to study-and exterminate-nonhumans. They've noticed that the Lore world has become frisky due to the Accession and they are scrambling to keep things under control. They grabbed Carrow in one of their retrieval missions and she is a prisoner in the Immortal Internment Compound. All the immortal prisoners wore collars, or torques, that nullified their powers. Carrow was told that she would be released if she managed to get Malkom off the demon plain Oblivian, home to the Trothan Demons, and back to the Compound. Being that Malkom was a vemon of course the Order wanted him. Vemons were supposed to be a myth and to capture one would be a great accomplishment. So off Carrow goes to try to lure Malkom in, her torque turned off so she could have some power.
I didn't think that I was going to like this book as much as I did. I'm not a major Demon fan. Malkom however, is a different story. He's uber smexy and total yumminess! From the very start he did his best to please and win over Carrow. He faced his fears for her. That was a major turn on.
There's lots of other reasons to love this book but it would take me forever to talk about them. Let me just leave you with this... READ IT!!!!
Oh! And I LOVE how KC is always throwing random pop culture references into her books. They're always good for a giggle.
Random things that made me smile and laugh...
* What would Ripley do? - referring to Ellen Ripley from the Alien Movies
* "And you're going into hell to get him? This is like Escape from New York, except you're bringing out the baddie." "Snake Plissken, at your service"
* Nix is always good for a hoot! - "...I don't feel like a freak. Unless le freak, c'est chic?"
* "I should name you Wilson the Volleyball" - reference from the movie Cast Away)
* "...if the Andoain coven was The Love Boat, I'd be a mix between Julie the recreation chic and bartender Isaac."
* "May I fellate you, if you please?"
* Officer Lindt had carried no chocolate.
* Phickens, cheasants, Cluck-Cluck and Chanticleer
* "Brusha brusha, brusha?" - who hasn't seen Grease?
* Carrow felt the same way she had the first time she's seen a penis in the flesh. Giddy..."Am thinking your file is too big for my computer to access, big guy"
* "Particle Man, Particle Man, doing the things that a particle can." - Ya gotta love it when a little kid sings They Might Be Giants songs from the 1990's
Hotness Rating
3 out of 5
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